642 DR. 0. FINSCH ON NEW POLYNESIAN BIRDS.  [Dec. 7, 
The tarsus is slender and considerably longer than the middle toe 
with the claw, whereas in Melanocharis the tarsus is only a little 
longer than the middle toe with claw. Otherwise the form of the 
feet and legs agree, the tarsus being also caligated in the new genus. 
The species I propose to call 
PRISTORHAMPHUS VERSTERI, Sp. nov. 
Whole upper surface, including sides of the head and neck, dull ~ 
olive-green ; quills and tail-feathers brownish black, margined on the 
outer web narrowly with a brighter, more yellowish olive-green ; the 
external tail-feather on the inner web with a conspicuous large white 
median spot, which is less extended on the second tail-feather ; remiges 
margined on the basal portion of the inner web narrowly with whitish ; 
chin, throat, and remainder of underparts dull olive-grey, the sides 
of the breast washed with greenish olive-grey ; the middle of the lower 
breast and vent changing into pale yellowish white ; lower wing- 
coverts and the long axillary feathers silky white, washed with pale 
yellow; bill and feet black. 
Long. rectr. _rectr. dig. int. 
tot. ale. intern. extern. culm. tars. incl. ung. 
millim. millim. millim. millim. millim. millim. millim. 
ce. 130 62 57 47 10 23 15 Pristorhamphus. 
en DS 64 43 41 11 16 13 $ Melanocharis. 
Coie 62 40 38 10 15 139 oD 
The collection contains only two specimens of the bird, which are 
precisely alike. 
As they correspond in colour exactly with the female of Melano- 
charis nigra, it may be supposed that they do not exhibit the dress 
of the old male, which may probably turn out to be very different 
in coloration. But however this may be, this species will be always 
distinguishable by the white spot on the inner web of the two external 
tail-feathers, even without regard to the strongly marked generic 
differences. 
I have great pleasure in naming this new and interesting although 
modestly coloured bird after my dear friend Mr. F. A. Verster, the 
meritorious Administrator of the Rijks Museum at Leiden, whose 
name deserves to be preserved in science and in the galleries of the 
National Museum of Holland. 
5. Characters of six new Polynesian Birds in the Museum ° 
Godeffroy at Hamburg. By Orro Fiyscu, Ph.D., 
C.M.Z.S. 
[Received November 8, 1875.] 
Besides a bird from the Feejees, which has been collected and for- 
warded by Mr. Theodor Kleinschmidt, of Nai-Koro, Ovalau, and 
which proves to be new, I have the pleasure of characterizing five 
new species of birds from Ponape (or Puynipet), Seniavin group, 
